[ath9k-devel] ath9k-devel Digest, Vol 79, Issue 6

[Arend van Spriel <arend@broadcom.com>]

On 01/09/15 02:54, ??? wrote:
> Hi Arend,
> I had ATH9k hardware, my wireless device is WLE350NX, it is AR9580 chip.
> Please send me your code to test!
> I am new to LINUX.

Ok. The patch can be found on patchwork [1]. That page contains download 
links to get the patch. _mbox_ link can be used with 'git am' command. 
_patch_ link can be used with 'patch' command.

Regards,
Arend

[1] https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/5544621/

> Regards,
> David Yang
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> 1. Re: [PATCH] ath: ath9k: use debugfs_create_devm_seqfile()
> helper for seq_file entries (Kalle Valo)
> 2. Re: [PATCH] ath: ath9k: use debugfs_create_devm_seqfile()
> helper for seq_file entries (Sujith Manoharan)
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> Message: 1
> Date: Wed, 07 Jan 2015 20:05:00 +0200
> From: Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>
> Subject: Re: [ath9k-devel] [PATCH] ath: ath9k: use
> debugfs_create_devm_seqfile() helper for seq_file entries
> To: Arend van Spriel <arend@broadcom.com>
> Cc: ath9k-devel at lists.ath9k.org, linux-wireless
> <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>
> Message-ID: <87bnmapiur.fsf@kamboji.qca.qualcomm.com>
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> Arend van Spriel <arend@broadcom.com> writes:
>
>  > Use the helper to get rid of the file operations per debugfs file. The
>  > device driver data contains struct ieee80211_hw pointer and the
>  > struct ath9k_softc pointer is assigned to ieee80211_hw::priv so it can
>  > be accessed in the seq_file read operation.
>  >
>  > Cc: ath9k-devel at lists.ath9k.org
>  > Signed-off-by: Arend van Spriel <arend@broadcom.com>
>  > ---
>  > Hi Kalle,
>  >
>  > This patch was reverted in the driver-core repository as I overlooked
>  > the use of driver data and caused ath9k driver to crash. I believe this
>  > revised patch properly uses it now although I have no ath9k hardware to
>  > test this. So I hope some ath9k developers out there can give this patch
>  > a run for its money. It compiles and no checkpatch or sparse warnings.
>  >
>  > The patch applies to the master branch of the wireless-drivers-next
>  > repository.
>
> Can someone with ath9k hardware test this, please? I'm hesitant to apply
> this without testing.
>
> --
> Kalle Valo
>
>
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> Message: 2
> Date: Thu, 8 Jan 2015 08:49:00 +0530
> From: Sujith Manoharan <sujith@msujith.org>
> Subject: Re: [ath9k-devel] [PATCH] ath: ath9k: use
> debugfs_create_devm_seqfile() helper for seq_file entries
> To: Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>
> Cc: Arend van Spriel <arend@broadcom.com>,
> ath9k-devel at lists.ath9k.org, linux-wireless
> <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>
> Message-ID: <21677.63268.657151.679992@gargle.gargle.HOWL>
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>  > Arend van Spriel <arend@broadcom.com> writes:
>  >
>  > > Use the helper to get rid of the file operations per debugfs file. The
>  > > device driver data contains struct ieee80211_hw pointer and the
>  > > struct ath9k_softc pointer is assigned to ieee80211_hw::priv so it can
>  > > be accessed in the seq_file read operation.
>  > >
>  > > Cc: ath9k-devel at lists.ath9k.org
>  > > Signed-off-by: Arend van Spriel <arend@broadcom.com>
>
> Thanks for the patch.
>
>  > Can someone with ath9k hardware test this, please? I'm hesitant to apply
>  > this without testing.
>
> I tested it and there were no crashes.
>
> Sujith
>
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